2 children among 8 killed in separate road accidents in K-P

Five ambulances and 20 rescue personnel took part in the operation, shifting the deceased and injured to hospital, he added.The cause of the accident was not immediately known.In the Charsadda incident, three children were run over by a truck near Tarnab Road.

Rescue teams responded on the instructions of District Emergency Officer Ghayoor Mushtaq Khan and shifted the children to the District Headquarters Hospital.The deceased were identified as five-year-old Mubeen, son of Farhadullah, and 11-year-old Saifullah, son of Sher Wali.

Fourteen-year-old Yaseen, son of Farhadullah, was injured.

According to initial information, Farhadullah and Yaseen belonged to Gulshanabad Khat Korona, while Saifullah was a resident of Kheshgi.Read: Four killed as passenger van collides with dumper on Swat MotorwayK-P Governor Faisal Karim Kundi expressed grief over the loss of lives in the passenger van accident in Buner and offered his condolences and sympathies to the families of the six people killed.

He also wished the seven injured people a speedy recovery and directed the relevant authorities to ensure they receive the best possible medical treatment.On October 13, four people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured when a van collided with a truck on the Quetta-Karachi National Highway near Badrang in Mastung district.

The van was travelling from Quetta to Kalat when the collision occurred.Earlier, on August 30, four people were killed and seven injured when a passenger van collided with a dumper near Tunnel No 3 on the Swat Motorway in Lower Dir district.

A motorway police spokesperson attributed the crash to the negligence and carelessness of the van driver.In July, at least 40 people were killed and eight injured when a passenger coach travelling from Quetta to Peshawar plunged into a ravine in the Danasar area of the Sherani-Zhob Highway, near the Balochistan-Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa border.

The difficult mountainous terrain complicated rescue efforts.

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